SO MUCH ‘LOVE AND DIALOGUE’ BETWEEN COPTIC POPE AND FRANCISVATICAN THAT NOBODY KNOWS WHAT EITHER OF THEM BELIEVE ABOUT GAY BLESSINGS
CARDINAL FERNÁNDEZ: THE GAY BLESSING FRANCISCHURCH AGREES WITH COPTIC ORTHODOX STATEMENT CONDEMNING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY
UNCLE TED’S LONG-TIME ROOMIE, CD. FARRELL: YOUTH MINISTRY IS CALLED TO RENEW ITSELF IN A SYNODAL STYLE BY BEING OPEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. BE MAIN AGENTS OF RENEWAL SO THAT THE CHURCH CAN ‘UNBLOCK’ ITSELF AND BECOME YOUNG AGAIN!
CARDINAL FERNÁNDEZ BATTLES TO FIX RIFT WITH COPTS OVER GAY BLESSINGS DOCUMENT
‘THEY’RE GOING TO TRY AND HIT TARGETS DEEP INSIDE OF RUSSIA AND GOD HELP US’ [20:00]
2 DOZEN TRUDGE IN THE SOUTH TEXAS HEAT WITH JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT FOR THAT EUCHARISTIC REVIVIAL
PALESTINIAN-MUSLIM MOTHER EXPRESSES HAPPINESS AND JOY AFTER HER SON BROKE INTO A JEWISH HOME AND STABBED A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO DEATH IN HER BED WHILE SHE WAS SLEEPING.
This national Eucharistic pilgrimage has me baffled and worried. First of all, the timing. Why now, with no particular Church feast days post-Pentecost, in the summer heat and storm season? Secondly, why was Indianapolis chosen as a sacred pilgrimage destination? In that case, why not Chicago, since Cardinal Cupich is one of the leaders? Or Forest Lake, Minnesota? Why are dozens now dying of heat exhaustion on the “San Juan Diego route,” while we read that a Pentecost pilgrimage of 20,000 clans “shut down” the French city of Chartres?
In earlier days of the Church, holy monks and priests typically led penitential processions and pilgrims during Advent or Lent, in honor of Christmas and Easter, Corpus Christi, or Our Lady’s feast of the Assumption. Their destinations were always holy cities housing the relics and tombs of venerated saints (e.g. in Italy, Rome: Basilica of St.Peter and Basilica of St. Paul; Salerno: St. Matthew; Padua: St. Luke, St. Anthony; Venice: St. Mark; Milan: Duomo of St. Charles Borromeo. In Germany, Cologne: Shrine of the Three Kings. In Spain, Sandiego de Compostela: St. James; in Turkey, Basilica of St. John at Ephesus…). Of course the greatest pilgrimage destination of all was Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of Christ.
I agree with Frank who recently expressed some misgivings about the current national procession. How many are true pilgrims? How many are tourists, or rubberneckers, or even possibly 5th Column intruders? Time will tell. Let us “watch and pray,” as Our Lord said.